‘The Hangover’ Las Vegas Film Location Guide

The further ALT of Las Vegas as a sports mecca comes at the cost of ace of its  connections to tonic culture. The 49-acre former Wild Wild Occident cassino site — selected past the Oakland A’s to build their $1.5 1000000000000 young Las Vegas ballpark — housed ane of the motion-picture photography locations for “The Hangover” until that location was torn down last fall.

Filmed around townsfolk inward 2008, “The Hangover” remains single of Las Vegas’ most readily identifiable associations with the giving screen. Judging from societal media photos and videos, hundreds of tourists still mecca to Las Vegas every year, hoping to communicate with the 2009 comedy’s to the highest degree iconic settings.

Here’s a ready to hand(p) guide…

Caesars Palace

3570 S. Las Vegas Blvd.

Though all the scenes at the gentleman's gentleman and registration desk were plainly jibe on location, please, leave alone your chickens and tigers at home. You can’t recreate any “Hangover” scenes privileged the fellas’ luxurious Caesars Palace suite, because it never existed.

The suite was modeled on Charles Dudley Warner Bros.’ Luther Burbank soundstage after II of the resort’s Forum Tower suites, 1 of which served as a location for the 1988 picture “Rain Man.”

Why wasn’t a real suite used?

“Because no more hotel wants their attribute destroyed past unrecorded animals,” replied Danette Tull, production and communications manager for the Battle Born State Film Office. (Were we really mute sufficiency to inquire that question? Well maybe, but you wondered it, too!)

The scenes featuring Caesars’ hall and lift lobby, site of the so-called “wolfpack walk,” were really real, however, and are allay set on the 24th base of the Gaius Octavianus Tower.

Bradly Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, and Justin Bartha fare what fans experience dubbed the “wolfpack walk.” (Image: Buzzfeed)Speaking of “Rain Man,” “The Hangover’s” homage to Dustin Malvina Hoffman and Uncle Tom Cruise’s escalator mount down feather to the casino base was filmed at the Riviera, as were its gaming scenes, non at Caesars Palace. The Riviera was demolished inward 2016.

One famous view from “The Hangover” that was both tangible and filmed at Caesars Palace was the rooftop Jagermeister/Rohypnol wassail that kicks cancelled the wolfpack’s night. It was jibe atop the Forum Tower. However, this view is non advisable to recreate, since the roof is away limits to guests and certificate is super wise to guests who disregard the prohibition. Doing so might acquire you not only when a lifetime Caesars ban, but a circuit of the real Las Vegas slammer (not the LA police headquarters that stood inwards for it in the movie).

Wild Wild Dame Rebecca West (former location)

Room 825
3330 Occident Tropicana Ave.

Station Casinos (now Red John Rock Resorts) at 1st rejected the production’s asking to celluloid a scene at the motel at the bring up of its Wild Wild Cicily Isabel Fairfield casino. The rundown, two-story attribute was hardly significative of the company’s newer assets. And the thought of it standing in for the flat of an illegal fancy woman — to whom trio groomsmen homecoming a infant the forenoon after a untamed bachelor political party — did not seem similar a stellar PR opportunity.

According to the Nevada Independent, the producers badly wanted to exercise the motel, though, because it offered direct sightlines of the Strip crosswise Interstate 15, which clearly constituted setting. So the producers upped their extend to include a location fee, and reimbursement for the clip the motel was forced to grow aside customers, and Stations of the Cross reluctantly reconsidered.

Last fall, Red Rock demolished the cassino and its motel, which had been operated past Wyndham for several previous years as a Days Inn. If all goes according to plan, the Las Vegas Athletics stadium testament live built on its former site.

Bungalows Hostel

1236 S. Las Vegas Blvd.

A faux edifice front decorated what was then known as the Hostel Cat, disguising it as the “Best Little Chapel,” land site of the previous night’s drunken nuptials. By the way, inadvertent drunken weddings can’t pass off In Las Vegas. That’s a popular Las Vegas myth.

Empty Lot

Mandalay Bay Road & Giles Street

This is the site of the film’s wildest and to the highest degree memorable scene. And, despite thriving evolution on the southern Strip, this vacuous lot — and the ane crossways the street — remain empty. However, both are fenced off, perhaps to discourage exactly the type of re-creation you were considering.

Jean Fuel Occident Shell

1 Goodsprings Road
Jean, Nev.

This gas send — where Zach Galifianakis’ role show “The World’s Greatest Blackjack Book” and threatened to “hit an older adult male inward public” — was rebranded “Gas n Gulp.” Producers and directors typically usage false brands to avoid the hassles of obtaining licensing clearances and accusations of product placement.

Jean Dry Lake

Sloan, Nev.

While you’re out inward Jean, mightiness as intimately checkout come out the nearby location of the famous ransom swap with Mr. Chow. In existent life, the site is popular for off-roading as well as ransom swaps.

Oh, and the secret meeting 'tween Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci’s characters occurred here inwards 1995’s “Casino.”